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Foreclosure leaves tenants in the cold

The two-story home in the East San Jose foothills could belong to any well to do family, but step through the door and you’re inside a million-dollar suburban tenement house. More than a dozen people have been living in 11 rented rooms, and several of them were unaware when they signed rental agreements that the house had been foreclosed on in November by Bank of America. They were stunned to learn a few days after moving in that they were being evicted by the bank. That discovery set off a major battle between the landlord, some of the tenants who felt deceived, and even a few other tenants who wanted to let sleeping dogs lie.